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JUNE 1, 2021
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World War II veteran
Herman Hudson walks on
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
June
• Wednesday, June 2 – Tribal Council meeting, 10 a.m., Governance
Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
• Wednesday, June 16 – Tribal Council meeting, 10 a.m., Gover-
nance Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
• Friday, June 18 – Tribal offices closed in observance of Juneteenth.
• Sunday, June 27 – General Council meeting for Tribal Council
nominations only, 11 a.m., Location TBD. 503-879-2304.
• Wednesday, June 30 – Tribal Council meeting, 10 a.m., Gover-
nance Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
July
• Monday, July 5 – Tribal offices closed in observance of the Fourth
of July holiday.
(Editor’s note: All events are tentative depending
on the status of the Tribe’s COVID-19
coronavirus pandemic response.)
Massage at Health & Wellness Center
Mind, Body & Soul Therapeutic Massage started at the
Health & Wellness Clinic.
Remember: Appointments for massage are not managed
by the Health & Wellness Center staff.
To schedule an appointment, call 971-237-2561. n
LIHEAP program open in service area
The Tribal Social Service’s LIHEAP – Low Income Home Energy As-
sistance Program – is open to eligible Tribal members in the six-county
service area and Clackamas County.
This is a first-come, first-served program and income criteria applies.
LIHEAP is federally funded through the Department of Health and Hu-
man Services and is designed to help low-income households with home
heating costs.
For more information, contact Social Services at 503-879-2034. n
Oregon becomes the fourth state to
offer residents the chance to win cash
in exchange for getting a vaccine
MONEY continued
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Youth will have a chance to win
one of five $100,000 Oregon College
Savings Plan education scholar-
ships.
The prize money, totaling $1.86
million, comes from Oregon’s Coro-
navirus Relief Act funds.
“Vaccines administered by the
Grand Ronde Tribe were entered
into the Oregon Alert System as
part of the reporting process,”
the Tribe posted on its Facebook
page on Monday, May 24. “As a re-
sult, individuals vaccinated by the
Grand Ronde Tribe are automati-
cally included in the Oregon lottery
drawings announced last week by
OHA (Oregon Health Authority).”
Oregon becomes the fourth state
after Ohio, New York and Mary-
land to offer residents the chance
to win cash in exchange for getting
a vaccine.
According to www.grandronde.
org, the Grand Ronde Tribe has
vaccinated 20,391 people as of
Monday, May 24, with the two-dose
Moderna vaccine.
The lottery’s goal is to get Oregon
to 70 percent of residents 18 and
older having at least one vaccine
dose, which will mark when Brown
said she will lift county-based busi-
ness and social restrictions meant
to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The state is currently at 63 percent
of adults with at least one dose.
Oregon will use the state’s vaccine
database to assign each vaccinated
person a number, which will be
passed to the Oregon Lottery for the
drawing. Winning numbers will be
sent back to the Health Authority,
which will contact the winners. No
personal identifying information will
be shared with the Oregon Lottery.
Winners’ names will be made
public about a week after the draw-
ing, but winners can decline a prize
to preserve their patient privacy if
they so wish. n
Herman K. Hudson, the Tribe’s
last living World War II veteran
and eldest male Elder at 96 years
of age, walked on Wednesday, May
26, 2021.
Hudson was born in Grand Ronde
on Jan. 4, 1925, the son of Herman
A. and Ella Hudson. He lived for
many years at Chemawa Indian
School in Salem, where his father
worked as a bus and truck driver.
However, Chemawa employee chil-
dren were not allowed to attend the
school.
Instead, Hudson attended high
school in Keizer and Salem until
his junior year at Salem’s North
High School when he enlisted in
the Navy in 1942.
“It was during the war, you know,
and that was what you did, I guess,”
he said in a Smoke Signals story
that appeared in July 2006. “My
uncles that I was closest to went
into the service, so I did, too.”
He served in the South Pacific
aboard the U.S.S. Nevada, escort-
ing fleet oilers. He also learned to
be quite a good barber while in the
Navy when his vessel’s regular
barber was shipping out and taught
Herman how to cut hair. “Pretty
soon, I got to be a pretty good bar-
ber,” he recalled.
He was discharged in 1945 and he
went to work in the woods and in
sawmills in Yoncalla and Drain, not
too far from the Umpqua River. It
was there that his met his wife, Ella
Joyce Miller, who walked on in 1998
just four months shy of their 50th
wedding anniversary. They had
three children – Kathryn in 1950,
Tim in 1953 and Steven in 1955.
Herman K. Hudson
In 1950, Oregon veterans received
a bonus and Herman used the
money to enroll in barber school.
For many years after, he made
his living by cutting hair in many
places from Coos Bay, Ore., to Car-
bondale, Colo., to Puyallup, Wash.
After Joyce passed, he moved back
to Grand Ronde, where he owned a
motor home that he would drive to
Yuma, Ariz., every winter to play
golf and square dance.
He continued driving himself and
golfing well into his 90s, playing at
Cross Creek Golf Course on High-
way 22 near Dallas.
In April 2019, he received a
Quilt of Valor for his military
service in the Governance Center
Atrium.
In addition to being the Tribe’s
eldest male Elder, Hudson was the
third eldest member of the Tribe at
the time of his passing with only
former Tribal Council Chairwoman
Kathryn Harrison and Carmilla
Faggani being older. Harold Gene
Baker now becomes the Tribe’s
eldest male Elder.
A full obituary will appear in the
June 15 edition of Smoke Signals. n
Taking shape
Photos by Timothy J. Gonzalez
Construction continues on the new Information Systems/Procurement
building on Tuesday, May 18. Tribal Council approved the plan and
construction in August 2019. The 20,000-square-foot building will
provide Information Systems’ employees more room and move
Procurement employees out of a modular building.